I never met
Bhob Stewart who passed away this week. I'm sorry I didn't because our interests in pop culture overlapped. We must have corresponded about comics though, because my name was in his email address book, and his friend Brad Verter was kind enough to send a notice of his death, and some scans that he thought might be of interest. Bhob had apparently asked him to scan these for his
blog Potrzebie, but didn't get a chance to use them.
Bhob was apparently instrumental in putting on
Phonus Balonus, an underground cartoon exhibit at an offshoot of the Corcoran Gallery on Dupont Circle. Sean Howe has photographs online
here, here, and
here.
Here are the scans about the exhibit. I'm afraid most of them are only partially complete, but they give you an idea about what was in the show, and how it was received. Brad scanned the whole catalog of the show, and it's
online here. Two libraries are shown in Worldcat as holding a copy of it - the
Tate in London and
UC Berkeley in California.
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| Corcoran Gallery's press release, page 1 |
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| Front cover to the catalog with art by Bhob. |
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| Exhibit opening ticket. |
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| Newspaper clipping with Skip Williamson art |
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| Article from the New York Post. |
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| Fragment of a Washington Post article |
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| Partial Washington Post article from May 21, 1969. |
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| Partial Washington Star article from June 1, 1969 |
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| Article from an unknown New York city magazine. |
